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Relationships & Communication book summaries

The best relationship and communication book summaries — dating, marriage, parenting, and conflict, distilled.

How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

4-min read

How to Talk to Anyone cover

How to Talk to Anyone

Leil Lowndes

6-min read

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ cover

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

4-min read

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus cover

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

John Gray

5-min read

The Art of Loving cover

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm

3-min read

All About Love: New Visions cover

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

4-min read

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High cover

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

3-min read

Attached cover

Attached

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

5-min read

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty cover

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

Mark Manson

3-min read

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life cover

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

6-min read

Boundaries cover

Boundaries

Henry Cloud and John Townsend

4-min read

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents cover

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

6-min read

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships cover

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

Marshall B. Rosenberg

3-min read

How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving cover

How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

David Richo

3-min read

Hold Me Tight cover

Hold Me Tight

Sue Johnson

5-min read

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk cover

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

2-min read

Codependent No More cover

Codependent No More

Melody Beattie

5-min read

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work cover

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John M. Gottman and Nan Silver

3-min read

Forgiving What You Can't Forget cover

Forgiving What You Can't Forget

Lysa TerKeurst

3-min read

The Relationship Cure cover

The Relationship Cure

John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire

3-min read

Relationship Goals cover

Relationship Goals

Michael Todd

3-min read

How to Know a Person cover

How to Know a Person

David Brooks

7-min read

The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More cover

The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More

Jefferson Fisher

5-min read

The Happiest Baby on the Block cover

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Harvey Karp

2-min read

Fight Right cover

Fight Right

Julie Schwartz Gottman and John M. Gottman

5-min read

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts cover

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Gary Chapman

2-min read

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage cover

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden

3-min read

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness cover

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

2-min read